Example sentences of "have been a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 2 | 1991 has been a marvellous year for Good Housekeeping and it 's largely thanks to you . |
| 3 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 4 | THIS has been a momentous year for CCG in London , with a number of important new contracts and expanded services with existing clients . |
| 5 | YOU do n't have to be the Queen to feel that 1992 has been a rotten year . |
| 6 | Aside from her gold medal triumph at the Barcelona Olympics , Capriati said it has been a disappointing year on the court and gave herself a ‘ C ’ grade for her results . |
| 7 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 8 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 9 | Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 . |
| 10 | It has been a good year to be at Stirling . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been a tough year all round but we have managed to complete a number of objectives and it is important that all employees continue to appreciate the value of environmental and health and safety issues . ’ |
| 12 | He admitted : ‘ It has been a shocking year for me . |
| 13 | 1992 has been a difficult year . |
| 14 | ‘ It has been a difficult year because I have n't been able to get into the side . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But it has been a wonderful year and a wonderful time for me . |
| 16 | Mr. Chairman , nineteen eighty nine has been a significant year for the voluntary sector , and we have witnessed some important developments , including the publication of the White Paper , Charities , a Framework for the Future . |
| 17 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 18 | Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses . |
| 19 | But despite what appears to have been a rotten year for everyone , books were still written , films made , and people could still summon up the energy and enthusiasm for sex . |
| 20 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |
| 21 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 22 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 23 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 24 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 25 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
| 26 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 27 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 28 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 29 | It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone . |
| 30 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |